LISA '99 Conference Overview
Important Dates
Tutorials, Workshops, Refereed Papers, Invited Talks, Practicum, WIPs, and BOFs
Conference Topics
Conference Organizers
How and Where to Submit a Paper to the Refereed Track
LISA '99 Exhibition
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CONFERENCE TOPICS
The Program Committee invites you to join the contributors to the LISA XIII
conference. Submissions of refereed papers or other presentations which
address any and all aspects of System Administration are acceptable. Here
is a partial list of timely paper topics for potential authors:
Technology, Tools, and Techniques:
- Innovative system administration tools and techniques
- Tips and tricks: new uses for old tools
- Distributed or automated system administration
- High availability and disaster recovery
- Scaling support of "open source" systems for servers and desktops
- Designing, selecting, scaling, integrating and managing "enterprise" computing services.
- Security (all aspects)
- Authentication systems
- Applications of tools, techniques and methods from other disciplines
- Integration of new networking technologies, protocols and applications
- Integration of emerging technologies
- Performance analysis and monitoring
Theory and Practice of System Administration
- Methodology, Paradigms and Models for system administration
- Analysis of "best practices" in systems administration
- Analysis and comparison of alternative systems for systems administration tasks
- Case studies
- Application of scientific methods to systems administration
- Metrics for Systems Administration
The "Soft Science" of System Administration
- System administration management issues
- Support strategies
- Effective hiring techniques
- Effective training techniques for system administration
- Budgeting, cost analyses and project planning/management techniques for systems administration
- The System Administrator's role in the organization
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